Meet Mr. Good Housekeeping!

Sometimes supercleaners aren't born  they're made. There was a time in the Randles' Kansas City, Kansas, household when Elvira, 45, did all the cooking, cleaning and child care, in addition to working long hours at an insurance company. "My husband would come home from work, eat dinner and relax," says Elvira. She was getting frustrated  but Ricky, now 46, was oblivious.

Growing up in a family with nine kids, Ricky absorbed his parents' arrangement: His mother did what Ricky came to think of as "all the woman duties," while his father did the outdoor work, like cutting the grass and keeping up the car. That was all Ricky knew until his wife went back to school for a degree in education. With Elvira no longer around to do the heavy lifting, Ricky found himself stepping in. "He supported me by cooking, bathing the children, helping with homework and cleaning," says Elvira. "And now he cleans more than I do!"

"Doing the housework makes Elvira's life less stressful," says this reformed husband. "And that makes our marriage a lot better."

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